This does seem to be a strange issue, but it may be more complex than
this bug report suggests.
First of all, it's important to note that epiphany-browser is actually a
dummy package that depends on epiphany-gecko [1]. epiphany-gecko in turn
carries epiphany-browser-data as one of its dependencies, so if you
"sudo apt-get remove epiphany-gecko" and then "sudo apt-get autoremove",
epiphany-browser-data does get autoremoved (after removing epiphany-
gecko, epiphany-browser and epiphany-extensions). However, "sudo apt-get
remove epiphany-browser" followed by "sudo apt-get autoremove" does not
(auto)remove anything but epiphany-browser, so perhaps the real issue
here is that epiphany-gecko doesn't realize it's only needed by
epiphany-browser.
I'm going to send an email to the original maintainer of the package and
ask for clarification. In the meantime, I'm setting the status of this
bug report to In Progress.
[1] From the Description of epiphany-browser package in debian/control
for epiphany-browser-2.26.1: "Intuitive web browser - dummy package
[...] This dummy package installs Epiphany with the Gecko backend by
default."
** Changed in: epiphany-browser (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed => In Progress
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epiphany-browser should depend on epiphany-browser-data (purge problem)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/313690
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